9248	Forums / Theology Forum / Is Theology Your God?	on: April 05, 2006, 02:12:37 PM
Just as God reveals Himself through His revelation, He also teaches so that anyone who claims they have not enough to understand, or enough to get through this life have not to blame God. To claim this is to say that the teacher does not have enough knowledge. Really the Lord knows the thoughts of man and He knows that they are futile. Man left to himself is just blind through and through. We can trust the teacher. Now this way of teaching comes to us through the counsel and the assembly. That is those who share in the covenant of redemption and then we assemble to share in these great and glorious truths in His word. Yet in trying to understand His word we left to ourselves would only have a carnal knowledge without the Spirit and then without the pleasure of understanding that He causes. He has spoken in His word and He causes us to understand and to get a taste of Christ in that contemplation in the church. And in contemplating those truths we see His hand in our lives. We are all under the great counselor who is imparting wisdom and knowledge because He is showing us that even tho we work, yet that work is filthy rags unless He works in us because He alone deserves eternal praise. Yes, He is working through us and we are working, and so we offer Him all the praise for that work. He provides for us, he has given us all the ability to be counselors and we are all working in unison to effect that redemption in all of us for His praise. He shows us the power of his decrees, that is all of those things that transpire in our lives , the good and the bad, by giving us gifts that other unsaved men in the world have by giving them to us. When we see this power we are convinced that it is by His grace alone through His eternal decrees. This is the process of understanding the fear of the Lord.